One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.

To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals -- and critics of the Women's Movement.

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.

In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.

There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation - at least so it seemed to me.

the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.